Open Cosmos will launch 192 low-earth-orbit satellites for its ConnectedCosmos constellation following a 300 million euro Series C raise, Data Center Dynamics reported October 6. Details on the investors, the launch timeline and the services the constellation will carry were not in the initial report.
The raise puts Open Cosmos among the better-funded European space-infrastructure companies and extends the day’s connectivity thread: Telus and AST SpaceMobile completed a direct-to-device test in Canada the same day, and satellite capacity is increasingly part of the same capital conversation as data centers. One hundred ninety-two satellites is a real network, not a demo; the question is whether the business case closes on backhaul and IoT rather than consumer broadband.